SpaceX will launch a mysterious nationwide safety mission as we speak (Feb. 14), and you may watch the motion stay.
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the U.S.-124 mission for the U.S. House Power as we speak at 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT) from Florida’s Cape Canaveral House Power Station.
SpaceX will stream the launch stay via its account on X, starting about quarter-hour earlier than liftoff. The webcast might minimize off comparatively early, as is widespread for categorised missions.
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If all goes based on plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage will come again to Earth for a vertical landing at Cape Canaveral about eight minutes after liftoff. It is going to be the seventh launch and touchdown for this specific booster, based on a SpaceX mission description.
The House Power has not revealed a lot details about USSF-124. The SpaceX mission description is equally taciturn, giving little element other than the truth that the goal vacation spot is low Earth orbit.
According to NextSpaceflight.com, nonetheless, two satellites are going up on USSF-124, one in every of them constructed by L3Harris and the opposite by Northrop Grumman.
USSF-124 might be a part of a really busy stretch in spaceflight. At 7:30 p.m. EST tonight (0030 GMT on Feb. 15), for instance, SpaceX plans to launch 22 of its Starlink web satellites to orbit from Vandenberg House Power Base in California.
Then, at 10:25 p.m. EST tonight (0325 GMT on Feb. 15), Russia will ship the robotic Progress 87 freighter towards the Worldwide House Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz rocket.
And SpaceX plans to launch IM-1, a personal moon-landing mission, on Feb. 15 at 1:05 a.m. EST (0605 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy House Middle, which is subsequent door to Cape Canaveral House Power Station.
